re: #10 Political Atheist

The science of life’s origins is unsettled to say the least. IMO-The dea life maybe formed way before what we might have thought previously is a worthwhile idea regardless of the state of the science so far.

Yeah, and I’ve said it’s an awesome discovery.

I think you are applying a standard about the intended audience the author did not.

So you think that this article will change the understanding of creationists and the like?

Sorry the article falls below what you find worthwhile.

The article bizarrely ties together the idea that life might have existed during this time in the past with the current state of the universe, and it claims that this idea of extraterrestrial abiogenesis challenges our understanding of our concept in the universe. The first is just confusing and makes little sense, the latter seems incorrect. As you say, people of ‘faith’ who don’t believe in any scientific explanation of abiogenesis might be ‘challenged’ by this, but they’d be challenged by a terrestrial theory of abiogenesis too, so that really doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Do you understand what I’m saying?